The first and most famous French restaurant in New York.] The old Methodist churches were models of Puritanism.

In the beginning they met in carpenter shops, or wherever they could.

When they had real churches, they, for a long time, had separate entrances for the sexes.
It was after I had read of this queer little side shoot of asceticism that I began to fully appreciate what a friend of mine had said to me concerning the New Greenwich.
"The Village," he said, "is a protest against Puritanism." And, he added: "It's just an island, a little island entirely surrounded by hostile seas!" The Village, old and new, _is_ a protest.

It is a voice in the wilderness.

Some day perhaps it will conquer even the hostile seas.
Anyway, most of the voyagers on the hostile seas will come to the Village eventually, so _it_ should worry! The Green Village is green no longer, except in scattered spots where the foliage seems to bubble up from the stone and brick as irrepressibly as Minetta Water once bubbled up thereabouts.